Tuesday, 3 January 2012

The Newman Fund raises over £50,000 for the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

Now that the Ordinariate has its own systems firmly in place for processing donations and collections, the League is no longer accepting new donations towards the Ordinariate through the Blessed John Henry Newman Fund. Existing regular donations remain unaffected for a transitional period. The gifts of those who still wish to donate to the Fund will be applied to the League's four objects, which may, of course, include support to the Ordinariate.

Since its inception in October 2010, the Catholic League has raised over £50,500 for the Ordinariate, including over £7,500 in Gift Aid that would not otherwise have been recoverable. This is in addition to the League's own grants of nearly £70,000 to support the work of the Ordinary and the Ordinariate's central services in the first few years of start-up.

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Ut Unum Sint

The Catholic League is an ecumenical society based in England, founded in 1913 to promote the unity of Christians. It supports the Catholic ecumenical movement and encourages the journey of all towards the visible unity of the whole Church in communion with the Bishop of Rome, and his ministry of reconciliation as successor to St Peter the apostle to 'strengthen his brothers'.

It was founded by Anglicans who believed passionately that the future of their Church lay in the reunion of all Christians in a common Catholic and Apostolic faith in restored full communion with the Successor of Peter in the see of Rome. Nowadays, our members include Anglicans, Roman Catholics, Orthodox, Eastern Catholic, Free Church Christians and any who support the Catholic ecumenical movement and the League's four objects:

- The promotion of fellowship among those who profess the Catholic faith- The union of all Christians with the Apostolic See of Rome- The spread of the Catholic faith, and- The deepening of the spiritual life.

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The walls of separation do not rise to heaven

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The Sorrow of Nature: The Way of the Cross with George Congreve SSJE and St Therese of Lisieux, Luke Miller, £6

Blessed John Henry Newman Fund: Donate to the Ordinariate

Now that the Ordinariate has its own systems in place for processing donations and collections via banking, the League is winding down the Blessed John Henry Newman fund for this purpose and referring donors to the Ordinariate itself. Existing regular donations remain unaffected for a transitional period. Likewise, we remain able to accept one-off and repeat donations designated for the Ordinariate via Paypal below, on a similarly transitional basis. Otherwise donations to the Fund from now on will be applied to the League's four objects. Of course, this may still include support to the Ordinariate from time to time.

Since its inception in October 2010, the Catholic League has raised over £50,500 for the Ordinariate, including over £7,500 in Gift Aid that would otherwise not have been recoverable. This is on top of our own grants to support the work of the Ordinary direct.

If you are a UK taxpayer, please download and fill in this Gift Aid Form and return it to the Treasurer at the above address.

For a one-off donation:

For a regular repeat donation, you can also Subscribe through Paypal:

Regular Donations Options

You can also donate through the League's Newman Fund at Charity Giving.

Or send a cheque to The Catholic League, marked for the Newman Fund to The Treasurer, Cyril Wood, 13 Merino Green, Oakridge Park, MILTON KEYNES, MK14 6FL. Alternatively, you can fill in a Standing Order Mandate. Please likewise send this to the Treasurer.

Thank you for your generosity.

Special Edition of the Messenger

Anglicans & Catholics in Communion, the special edition of The Messenger, 300 pages of comment and analysis of Patrimony, Unity and Mission in the wake of Anglicanorum Coetibus, and Pope Benedict's visit to Britain, is available free of charge to all bona fide enquirers. Here is the list of contents and contributors.

The second printing is available by kindness of the Manager, St Paul's Bookshop, Morpeth Terrace, London SW1P 1EP, beside Westminster Cathedral. A donation to the Blessed John Henry Newman Fund (below left) is requested to cover postal charges where applicable.

The contents are also available online - follow the page above - Anglicans & Catholics in Commmunion.

A follow up edition, collecting more international analysis and documentation, will appear later in 2012.

Prayer of Blessed John Henry Newman for Christian Unity

O Lord Jesus Christ, who, when You were about to suffer, prayed for Your discipes to the end of time that they might all be one, as You are in the Father and the Father in You:

Look down in pity on the manifold divisions among those who profess Your faith, and heal the many wounds which the pride of man and the craft of Satan have inflicted upon Your people.

Break down the walls of separation which divide one part and denomination of Christians from another.

Teach all that the See of St Peter, the Holy Church of Rome, is the foundation, centre and instrument of unity.

Open their hearts to the long-forgotten truth that our Holy Father, the Pope, is Your vicar and representative; and that in obeying him in matters of religion they are obeying You, so that, as there is but one holy company in heaven above, so likewise there may be but one communion, confessing and glorifying Your holy Name here below.